Do you prefer a 2 in 1 form factor, good battery life or best specifications to your requirements for the money? Pick or include any that apply. good for programming (python, matlab, and R) and streaming. would like good battery.

How important is weight to you? don't care much about weight.

Which OS do you require? Windows, Linux, Mac. Windows

Do you have a preferred screen size? If indifferent, put N/A. not too small

Are you doing any CAD/video editing/photo editing/gaming? List which programs/games you desire to run. If you have no requirements, put N/A. Bloomberg (financial software)

If you're gaming (leave blank if you put N/A above...), do you have certain games you want to play? At what settings and FPS do you want? n/a

Any specific requirements such as good keyboard, reliable business grade build quality, touch-screen, finger-print reader, optical drive or good input devices (keyboard/touchpad)?

not that important

Leave any finishing thoughts here that you may feel are necessary and beneficial to the discussion.

Excellent option. One more is the following laptop -Acer Aspire E5-575-33BM. It is brand new rather than refurbished, and has a larger screen. A new SSD would cost $45. If you need the 14" screen go for the Dell.

Low Quality Displays

A lot of laptops today still use low quality TN displays. The quality is worse than IPS or good TN. This is the case for many 1080p displays that aren't listed as IPS or 120Hz+, and nearly all displays 768p/900p. This becomes a particular concern in medium price ranges and up, and when models include unneeded CPU/RAM upgrades first.

There may be other concerns too such as colorspace and response times. Many IPS displays are passable but still not great. A more in-depth article is in the works, and will be linked here.

False High-Res Displays

Some laptops that list high resolutions (1440p through 4K) use "PenTile" RG/BW or WR/GB matrix display panels instead of RGB/RGB. These trick consumers because the listed resolution numbers are the same, but the detail is less, and they produce artifacts. Companies tend to use these only in the place of higher resolutions where an unsuspecting customer may not immediately realize something isn't right.

Key models with false high-res displays:

ASUS Vivobook N580VD

Clevo w/ Samsung/LG '4K' 15.6"

MSI G(X/S/E)63VR, WS63VR '4K'

Fujitsu Lifebook '4K' 15.6"

This problem exists in more models than this, and also in more than just laptops. An updated longer list and more in-depth article are in the works.